GLSEN strives to assure that each member of every school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
Want to participate in an asexual video project for Asexual Awareness Week this year? Check out the Asexual Portraits project here!
“[…] short video portraits showing asexual-spectrum people posing and expressing themselves how they see fit and then take a memorable quote from them (about their asexuality or their experiences with it in life) and display it over their portrait. The end result is that all of these short video clips of people will be combined into one large video, which will be hosted on the Portraits Collaboration Youtube channel.”
If this sounds like something you might be interested in, send an email to portraitscollab@gmail.com with “Asexual Portraits Collab” as the subject and include which questions from the google doc you want to answer. Remember to choose at least two.
An instruction video (captions enabled) has been made to help you make the absolute best video possible for your clip!
Hi GLESN tumblr staff. I wanted to ask Why you decided to schedule Ally Week the same week as Asexual Awareness Week? I'm sure it was an accident but I kinda wanted to check. We Aces need our week because so many people don't even know that we exist. Ace Awareness Week is an important time because we pull out all the stops to inform people who we are, and that we're real. Since we often get left out of the acronym some aces might not even know they're ace. Just curious, thanks for your time
Hi! Thanks for writing! Ally Week was started in 2005 by a group of LGBT middle & high school student leaders participating in GLSEN’s Jump-Start Student Leadership program. It was held at the end of October. Each year, we check school calendars nationwide for major conflicts and it’s been held in the end of October every year since then.
This year, we’re putting a particular emphasis on becoming #BetterAllies. For adults (LGBT or not) to be better allies to LGBT youth. And for LGBT youth to be better allies to their/our peers (cisgender LGBQ folks to trans* youth, white LGBT people to people of color, etc). Obviously we can all be better allies and so we see the overlap of Asexual Awareness Week and Ally Week this year as an opportunity to complement each other, rather than compete.
Here’s to successful Asexual Awareness and Ally Weeks!
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Before we get on with the post, it’s important to note that these are two groups of diverse people who are very unique in many ways! However, in light of the month, (and mainly due to the fact that a lot of the resources available online are for both groups), here is a compilation of resources for Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ+ people! Other masterposts can be found here (and don’t hesitate to add anything if you have resources to contribute)!
Kumu Hina (a documentary about the struggle to maintain Pacific Islander culture/values within modern Hawaiʻi, told through the lens of Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, a Native Hawaiian māhū [someone who embodies both a male and female spirit], and an honored and respected kumu [teacher], cultural practitioner, and community leader)
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Before we get on with the post, it’s important to note that these are two groups of diverse people who are very unique in many ways! However, in light of the month, (and mainly due to the fact that a lot of the resources available online are for both groups), here is a compilation of resources for Asian and Pacific Islander LGBTQ+ people! Other masterposts can be found here (and don’t hesitate to add anything if you have resources to contribute)!
Kumu Hina (a documentary about the struggle to maintain Pacific Islander culture/values within modern Hawaiʻi, told through the lens of Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu, a Native Hawaiian māhū [someone who embodies both a male and female spirit], and an honored and respected kumu [teacher], cultural practitioner, and community leader)